ASK BECKS - David Beckham answers questions from Paralympians

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Ask Becks - Questions And Answers with David Beckham - Sainsbury's



Becks talks about losing your temper,
Come Dine With Me,
Favourite Afters,
coping with 4 kids,
doing keepie uppies,
first milestone,
favourite holiday destination,
and what song goes through his head...



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How I got my first job

How all this got started.



Claire. ‏@Clurrr93
what does it take to be apart of the media industry? i'm currently studying film, radio and television studies at uni! :)

@neilmossey
hello-I did drama deg so had no chance! Sent out 85 letters for work exp and got about 40 rejections. The best reply was from...

..the one job I really wanted (Danny Baker show pilot) + became runner for series. Whats the lesson? Send out loads? Hold out...

..for the thing you most want? I dunno. Do both I guess! Upside: itll always need keen entry lev help but never advertise.

I actually looked forward to the rejection letters each morning-its a numbers game. Good luck -keep me posted on how you get on!

So ‏@Clurrr93. Yes. This could be you too.





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Ah Neil - just 18 months ago that photo and look at us both...


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PS think this might be a clip of Danny from 1969
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Wondered why YouTube video views freeze at 301?

WHY DOES THE YOUTUBE VIDEO VIEWS COUNTER SEEM TO FREEZE AT 301?


Ever wondered how YouTube works out the video views counter?

Ever stuck with a video long enough to see the view count pause for a while at 301 views?

For anyone who stares at their YouTube video hit counters hoping for it to take off... here's why they sometimes stick at 301:

(Via the definitive web series blog webseries today)

(By the way, all my links for webseries creators are here).





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Do you have your own lookalike? -- Update

Got some great replies to the "Who is YOUR lookalike" post


‏@obi1kanobi
brad pitt

@MrF1978
this will be me in ten years time.... http://i.wp.pl/a/f/film/033/52/75/0257552.jpg
(daniel stern..he was in home alone and city slickers)

@MikeRayment
I'm told I look like French midfielder Samir Nasri: http://pic.twitter.com/oUlUWee1

‏@ringo147
@NeilMossey Nah you look more like http://pic.twitter.com/qJTT6KZz




@1980kilgor
My famous lookalike was Tom Selleck when I was much younger (according to my sisters). I never saw it, tho.

‏@LisaHoctor
mine's Mick Hucknall

‏@kilgor
More like Colonel Sanders


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Do you have a famous lookalike? This is mine... Fulham footballer Andy Johnson neilmossey.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/meet-m…

— Neil Mossey (@NeilMossey) June 10, 2012

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This is the BBC. (All-Time Fave TV #8)

Love a bit of archive, me.

This is the ultimate bit of anorak.

This Is The BBC.





This is one (#8) of my 100 all-time Favourite TV clips - CLICK HERE for the full list.

<-- #7 When ITV Regions Ruled The World (The ITV Region Start Up Theme Tune)

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Here is a list of words meaning "great". Got any others?

Here is a list of words meaning "great".
A1
Ace

Astonishing
Award-winning
Awesome
Ballistic
Bees Knees
Bitchin’
Bodacious
Bonzer
Booming
Boss
Bostin'
Brilliant (Brill, Bril, Brillo)
Classic
Colossal
Cool (Cool Beans, Cool Banana, Coolamundo etc)
Cosmic
Crucial
Dandy
Dynamite
Ecstatic
Epic
Excellent
Extravagant
Fabulous
Fab
Fandabbydozy (or Fandabbiedozie)
Fantastic
Far Out
Formidable
Formidable (in a French accent)
Gorgeous
Grande (in a Spanish accent)
Gravy
Great
Groovy
Huge
Incredible
Invincible
Jazzed
Jolly good
Juiced
Killer
Magic
Marvellous
Mint
Monumental
Neat
Nice
Outrageous
Perfect
Phenomenal

Preposterous
Priceless
Rad

Rock solid

Rockstar
Safe
Skill
Smashing
Soaring
Solid (Gold)
Sorted
Sound
Spectacular
Spiffing
Splendid
Station
Stoked
Stunning
Stupendous
Sublime
Super
Superlative
Supersonic

Sweet
Terrific
Tremendous
Tidy
Turbo-charged

Ultimate
Unstoppable

Unbelievable
Wicked
Wonderful
World-Class
100% Beef Sausage


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A List Of Words Associated With Disney

DISNEY WORDS

Needed to do a word association with Disney... This is what came out.
A list of words linked to Disney...

101 Dalmatians
A Bug's Life
A Whole New World
Adventureland
Aladdin
Alice In Wonderland
Anastasia
Animation
Anna
Arandelle
Ariel
Aurora
Bambi
Bare Necessities
Bashful
Baymax
Be My Guest
Beauty And The Beast
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Belle
Big Hero 6
Brave
Buzz Lightyear
Cars
Cars
Cartoon
Castle
Christopher Robin
Cinderella
Circle Of Life
Clubhouse
Cruel De Ville
Disney Store
Disneyland Paris
Disneyworld
Doc
Donald Duck
Dopey
Dory
Dumbo
Eeyore
Elastigirl
Elsa
Emperor's New Groove
Enchanted
Esmerelda
Fantasia
Fantasyland
Finding Nemo
Fireworks
Frontierland
Frozen
Gepetto
Giselle
Goofy
Grumpy
Hakuna matata
Hannah Montana
Happy
High School Musical
Inside Out
It's A Small World
Jack Sparrow
Jasmine
Jessica Rabbit
Jiminy Cricket
Lady And The Tramp
Let It Go
Lightning McQueen
Lilo
Lion King
Little Mermaid
Magic Kingdom
Main Street Parade
March Hare
Mary Poppins
Maui
Merida
Mickey Mouse
Mike
Minnie Mouse
Moana
Monsters Inc.
Mr. Potato Head
Nemo
Neverland
Nightmare Before Christmas
Olaf
One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Parade
Peter Pan
Peter Pan
Phineas And Ferb
Piglet
Pinocchio
Pirates Of The Caribbean
Pixar
Pluto
Pocahontas
Pooh
Princess
Pumbaa
Rapunzel
Ride
Robin Hood
Roger Rabbit
Scrooge McDuck
Seven Dwarfs
Simba
Sleeping Beauty
Sleepy
Sneezy
Someday My Prince Will Come
Stitch
Sully
Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious
The Aristocats
The Fox And The Hound
The Incredibles
The Jungle Book
The Princess Diaries
Tiana
Tigger
Tinker Bell
Tomorrowland
Toon
Tour Guide Barbie
Toy Story
Tron
Tweedledum
Up
Walt
Walt Disney
Wendy Darling
When You Wish Upon A Star
White Rabbit
Wicked Stepmother
Winnie The Pooh
Wizards Of Waverly Place
Woody
XD
You've Got A Friend In Me
Zip A Dee Doo Dah!


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House Of Lies - official Showtime ipad app

Writer / Digital Producer, HOUSE OF LIES app for Showtime Networks, produced by Seven Publishing Ltd. Digital Team

Wrote content and concepts on 9 segments across all 7 chapters of the official app for the Showtime comedy drama, House of Lies, starring Don Cheadle, Kristin Bell, Ben Schwartz, Josh Lawson and Dawn Olivieri.



(Including the BS Generator, Glossary, Meet The Team, A Year Of Your Life As A Management Consultant, Interactive Hostile Workplace HR Training Infographic, Expenses Cleanup, Travel, Swimming With Sharks, and Marty's Manifesto).




It's available here as an ipad app:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stroke-your-genius-martys/id488234994?mt=8



and will also be available on the Barnes & Noble Nook:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stroke-your-genius-showtime-networks-inc/1108055549?ean=2940043873415




What's great about writing on a TV series app, is that you have to pull together and also balance a combination of three disciplines:

How it hits the eye.
DESIGN
High-end glossy magazine skills
Aesthetics
Does it look great and match the design rules of the show?

How it hits the finger (and device).
ENGINEERING
App building and coding skillsets
Functionality
Can it be done technically, and does it work?

And finally, where I sit...

How it hits the brain.
WRITING
TV/Broadcast writing skills
Content
Is it funny, and is it in the right character voice of the show?

We're still in frontiersland for this kind of work, but from where I'm standing, if any chapter of an app (ipad, Nook, or Android) excludes or leans too heavily on one of the three above... it just doesn't work.


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Top 10 Upsides Of Recovering From A Boris Bike Crash

Top 10 Upsides Of Recovering From A Boris Bike Crash

10
Face looks like a themed Google logo. Changes by the day.

9
Being known to a handful of healthcare professionals affectionately as ‘that bloke who had the Boris Bike crash’.

8
Talking like Louis Spence.

7
Chunks falling off face like an maxillofacial advent calendar. Festive.

6
Patronising kids in the supermarket who stare to ‘always wear a bike helmet’, like some kind of deranged 1950s superhero.

5
Looking like a vagrant whose stuff never gets touched. Also festive.

4
Hours spent concussed equals hours not spent hearing about Eurozone crisis.

3
Drinking through a straw makes 2 year old son feel superior.

2
Finally being able to look my hero Erik Estrada in the eye. We know what this is like.

1
Looking like a Hitler cat. Or the bloke from Sparks. Or Blakey from On The Buses.





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How To Break A New Story From Scratch

Having trouble planning out story beats?

This is Dan Wells, with an awesome system for plotting an outline, using a 7 Point Story Structure...

1
HOOK (Start)
2
PLOT TURN 1 (Conflict)
3
PINCH 1 (Horrible Things Happen)
4
MID-POINT (Move from Reaction To Action)
5
PINCH 2 (Jaws Of Defeat - lowest point)
6
PLOT TURN 2 (Obtain final thing)
7
RESOLUTION


Dan Wells On Story Structure Part 1




What's really useful with Dan's system is the order you tackle the 7 Points:

7 RESOLUTION
- Everything in your story leads to this moment.
- What is your story about? Where is your story going?
- Make sure you know what kind of resolution you want.
We start at the end because everything in the story leads to this moment. This is the climax. The point. Where it’s leading up to, what it’s about.
(eg Harry Potter: Harry defeats Voldemort)

1 HOOK
- Now we know the ending, figure out where we start.
- One easy way to do this is to start with the opposite state: eg if a character is going to end strong, she should start weak. (eg starting Batman as a depressed directionless loser, or Harry Potter as weak orphan under the stairs).

4 MID POINT
- Between HOOK and RESOLUTION
- How you start moving from Hero’s beginning state to end state. It’s where Hero moves from Reaction to Action.
(eg Fellowship of the Ring: ‘Oh no, let’s not get killed’ to ‘Let’s take the fight to them’. Midpoint is Council of Elron where they make that decision.
Harry Potter: Start sad & wimpy to Defeating Voldemort, so his MidPoint is ‘He learns who Voldemort is, what V wants to do, & decide he’s going to do something about it.’)


Dan Wells on Story Structure, part 2 of 5




2 PLOT TURN 1 (CONFLICT)
- This event moves us from the HOOK to the MID POINT. It’s what sets you in motion.
- This is where we introduce our conflict.
(So Harry Potter starts with a situation, but then a conflict is introduced. Changing the world the character lives in. A Call To Adventure, Or Confronting New Ideas).

6 PLOT TURN 2
- This is the thing that moves the story from MID POINT to END
- At MIDPOINT you determine to do something, and in the RESOLUTION you do it.
So Plot Turn 2 is where you obtain the final thing you need to make it happen.
“The Power Is In You!”
(eg Star Wars “Use The Force”; Oz “You Can Go Home Any Time You Want”; Matrix “Neo: You Are The One”).
- Grasping victory from the jaws of defeat: Something horrible just happened, but now the heroes have what they need...even if they don't realise it at the time.
- It's something that's going to give us the final piece we need to move from 'trying to succeed' to finally succeeding. (eg Harry Potter: Harry discovers the stone is in her pocket because his motives are pure).

3 PINCH 1
- A PINCH is designed to Apply Pressure. Horrible things happen. The purpose of a pinch is to force your characters into action.
(eg Harry Potter: The Troll Attack. No adults around, forcing children to solve the problem on their own. It's where we introduce danger into a fun environment.)

5 PINCH 2
- Pinch 2 applies more pressure, and makes the situation seem even worse.
A plan fails; A mentor dies leaving the heroes alone; The bad guys seem to win.
- These are the jaws of defeat from which your Hero will be snatching victory. Make sure the teeth are sharp.
(eg. Harry Potter: Harry loses Ron & Hermione to the traps and is left alone)
[Forces Hero to grow up, forces to work alone, SEEMS HOPELESS].


Dan Wells on Story Structure, part 3 of 5



Examples of Romantic, Tragedy, and Horror Plots


Dan Wells on Story Structure, part 4 of 5



ICE MONSTER PROLOGUE
- The Hook scene in most story arcs is not very interesting (Most arcs start in a position of weakness)
- Most plots start before the conflict is introduced
- You need to grab readers attention NOW

TRY/FAIL CYCLES
- Before Heroes succeed, they need to try and fail
- Victory should be earned
- A problem that can be solved on first try isn't big enough to care about


Dan Wells on Story Structure, part 5 of 5



SUB PLOTS
- Each thread can be mapped out - Spread events for pacing
- Line up the events to create powerful moments & scenes


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